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Originally Posted by darkrom
Dual boot or build a new pc. Those are the only real options. VMWARE is nice but not really. Emulation of OS's, especially server OS's, never functions 100% perfect.
There isn't a good reason to install server 2003 on a pc other than to tinker, so tinker away my friend.
Personally I would dual boot if the idea of building a "test dummy" pc seems a bit expensive right now.
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Why doesn't operate 100% perfect ?
Why he needs to build a separate machine just to play with win2k3?
Why he needs to spend more time to switch his main keyboard, monitor or mouse to the other machine running win2k3?
The only limitation that a virtualized system have right now is some hardware devices that can't be virtualized like graphic cards, special addons cards, etc. But this is for now because they are working to get around that. But if you have a well built machine with a good amount of ram (2GB-4GB), a dual/quad core cpu that supports Virtualization and plenty of HD space I can guarantee that the performance impact of running a virtualized O/S will be minimum. I'm pretty sure that he only wants to play with IIS, FTP, Domain, Active Directory, etc. All those things works perfectly in a Virtual environment.
My notebook that have only a silly Turion 64 single core cpu of 1.8GHz, 2GB of ram can run a Virtualized Windows XP Pro O/S on top of OpenSuse 10.3 fully loaded with Compiz Fusion, widgets, etc. And you will be amaze how fast it can work on both sides XP and OpenSuse.
The future, well right now is virtualization if he doesn't began to play with that he will be left behind. Many enterprise around the world are consolidating many of their systems in Virtualized environments because is already proven that works and make the systems more productive by freeing space and minimizing downtime. They also help in reducing operation costs.
